The Age of Reason is a free Bible study/Christianhistory that shows how and why modernChristianity became apostate.

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You may have noticed places in Scripture that
suggest saints were sinners even before
we became God’s children subject to His law. Tradition says the law that
governed us before we became subject
to God’s rule was damnation to hell. Is tradition correct?

Also, there are lots of rules from God in the
Old Testament that are ignored today because the New Testament makes it clear
that at least some things in the Old Testament have been replaced by grace. But
since nobody wants to denigrate or be disrespectful of God’s word by ignoring
some of it, some groups teach that we should “keep the law.” Because they
cannot keep the whole law, however, they divide the Old Testament into two main
groups of laws so they can ignore the group with “less authority.” The first
group they call the authoritative law of the Lord, also called “divine law.”
This divine group must be kept. The second group is the law
of Moses, or “human law.” These human laws were made by various human
authorities such as Moses and Paul and are (they incorrectly think) of lesser
authority as proven (they think) by Mt
19:7,8; 1 Co 7:6,12,25,40; Ac 5:29. They Reason
that these human laws were just well-intentioned attempts to create a societal
structure more conducive to keeping the divine law of the Lord. And because
these laws are of lesser authority than divine laws they may safely be ignored
today because societal structure has changed. (This poorly thought-out teaching
makes the word of God subservient to the changing dictates of society.) These groups
do have some clever and unusual theories and interpretations of Scripture based
on their foundational belief in the differing amounts of authority given by God
to the law of Moses and the law of the Lord. For example, they say the first
four of the Ten Commandments, which have to do with God, typify divine law,
while the last six, having to do with man, typify
human law. You don’t need to be able to see the speciousness of that thinking
in order to see that their foundational belief is as wrong as the religious
structure built upon it. Three things show that these groups do err, knowing
neither the Scriptures nor the power (authority) of God: First, God uses “law
of Moses” and “law of the Lord” as interchangeable synonyms in Lk 2:22,24.
Therefore we are divinely commanded by the power, intelligence, exactness,
infallibility, and example of Almighty God to treat the two as the same – just
as God does. Second, the Bible teaches those that have ears to hear to treat
the rulings of human authorities as if they were divine decrees. For example,
if you have a rule that your child is to keep his bedroom cleaned up, he is to
treat your rule as divine law. There is no difference between “divine law” and
“human law.” Third, the entire Bible is the inspired word of God.

Again, nobody wants to
denigrate or be disrespectful of God’s word or His laws. So when your child
grows up and lives in his own house is he disrespectful to you or to God if he
has a messy bedroom? Of course not, you never intended
that law to be permanent. Let’s now examine God’s laws to see if He, too, has
laws that are temporary.